subgenus Cricotopus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification

Tiny insect for ID - Cricotopus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Culicomorpha

Family Chironomidae (Midges)

Subfamily Orthocladiinae

Genus Cricotopus

No Taxon subgenus Cricotopus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cricotopus van der Wulp 1874

Identification

Front tibia dark with broad white band closer to base than apex. Abdominal segments 1 and 2 or 1 and 4 yellow or yellow-green, remainder dark. Sexual appendages often white.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 21 January, 2009 - 8:34am
Last updated 23 January, 2009 - 3:29pm

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